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A$AP Rocky

Baptized in the Gutter

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

2 Chainz is miffed. Backstage at Drake's OVO Fest, Canada's biggest annual hip-hop concert, Atlanta's "it" rapper has just discovered he w...

Kendrick Lamar

Inside the Year's Best Album

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2012

Kendrick Lamar celebrated his 24th birthday performing a concert in Toronto. At the end of the show on a summer night in 2011 at the Sound...

Tame Impala

Psych Out

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2012

"Regardless of what score they give the album, the only thing I care about is that they understand what I'm doing. If critics say that it's...

The Quiet Revolution of Flying Lotus

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2012

"First time I met him, it was like Jay meets Silent Bob," exclaims bass warrior Thundercat about his musical partner in crime and fellow sp...

Dirty Projectors

New Beginnings

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2012

"Before, a lot of Dirty Projectors albums were organized around a central idea," Dave Longstreth explains. "[Then] I just got kind of unhea...

Metric

Balancing Act

PUBLISHED May 28, 2012

Metric guitarist Jimmy Shaw sits sipping some mineral water, a fedora perched on his head; vocalist and synth player Emily Haines folds her...

PS I Love You

Sonic Warriors

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2012

"There isn't a movie called Death Dreams, is there?" Paul Saulnier asks over french fries and pints, hours before PS I Love You play their...

Cancer Bats

Live Through This

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2012

Inside a laser light-filled bar just off of Austin's manic Sixth Street, Cancer Bats are ripping through the final set of the night, a 1 a....